Patience is a virtue, but an intriguing new study suggests it may also affect the aging process. The research focused on undergraduate students (who probably aren’t thinking about healthy aging), but it provides some clues as to how actions today might affect your health later.

Scientists in Canada recently found that having more children may be protective against aging — essentially, that having offspring may ensure that one’s telomeres (those important parts of DNA linked to aging) stay lengthy. Here is our take on the matter:

What is successful aging? For many, it’s how many years you have accumulated—known as your chronological age. However, we all know people who seem younger than their age—fitter and healthier than you’d expect. These people may be “biologically” younger than their chronological age.

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The Healthy Aging Project is a program of the Integrative Physiology of Aging Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder. For more than 30 years, the lab has conducted research related to healthy aging, with a particular emphasis on generating scientific evidence for healthy lifestyle behaviors and natural products that can optimize overall health, and physical and cognitive function throughout the lifespan.